On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9 March 2012 01:22, Guillermo Polito <guillermopol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ClassBuilder>>validateClassName: aString ... >> self notify: aString asText allBold, >> ' already exists!\Proceed will store over it.' >> >> Is it right to do that asText allBold there? :S >> Shouldn't an exception be raised instead? >> >> Do I open a ticket? >> > Yes. > We should kill dependency by removing asText asBold. > Notifications should not accept rich-formatted text anyways, > because not all ui managers can handle it (now we having command-line > ui manager > which prints message on console). > Maybe have the command-line ui manager dumb down the representation - I'm sure this isn't the only place.
Guille, this likely pre-dates Exceptions (or at least wide-spread use of them). A much better direction is to use exceptions (or Announcements?) here, and have a process capture them and display appropriately for what they can display. The mechanism should probably include Class name and exception text, which could be rich-formatted as above, or plain formatted for command-line UI, or interrogated for other observers. Just suggestions. -Chris